In the pic the label seems to say Evaporated Milk. Could be my imagination though.

I remember once hearing an interview with an elderly German who was living in Berlin during the airlift just after the war, and remembered falling in love with an exotic far-away country called Canada because it was the source of the delicious Carnation evaporated milk which was being brought into Tempelhof.

Here in Newfoundland, evaporated milk used to be very popular, and still is among the older or more traditionally-minded crowd. When ordering in a cafe here, I'm usually careful to specify 'fresh milk', because sometimes I've ended up with Carnation in my tea or coffee.

So, the stuff he's got there is evaporated milk then?

-Phantom

If condensed milk is always sweetened and evaporated milk is never then yes, it is evaporated milk.

But what is this?http://users.pandora.be/eforum/emoti.../happy/046.gif

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3193/milchfq9.jpg

It's a table with some values i guess!

If you think it's a bar-code then sorry, no, at the time of production the stores did not have bar-codes, or laser counters!:hmm:

Uh... Thats the evaporated milk we've been talking about, isn't it?

-Phantom

Looks like you two got stuck in the language barrier here.
In germany ordinary evaporated milk is called "Kondensmilch" (= kondensierte Milch; would translate to condensed milk...). Sweetened evaporated milk (the one Phantom II calls condensed milk) is a whole different product with no distinct name. I think it's also not very common here. Apparently it's quite easy to confuse the two different terms.

So yes, what he drinks is evaporated milk. But it's "Kondensmilch" nonetheless. So you were both right somehow.;)

Lol, good catch. That's a 1980 can of milk, as that info. wasn't required during the war era :)

Oh no... sigh now the movie is ruined for me ! :doh:

Hi Myxale,

I think you're wrong, bar-code was released at the end of the seventies, just when the movie was produced - have a look [1st paragraph]:

http://www.strichcode.com/gerprimer.html

But maybe I'm wrong - the pic above is not very sharp..

Greetings,
SSB

Looks more like nutritional info. to me, which also was started about the same time iirc.

It most decidely looks like a bar code, seems like an awful lot of "nutritional information" for a can of condensed milk.

I could be wrong though I am quite often after all :smug:

:yep: Evaporated not condensed:o

So, I made myself a "U-Boat special cocktail" tonight just before dinner. Despite the fact that it looks rather disgusting, its actually quite nice, well, a lot nicer than pure lemon juice. Imagine a strawberry milkshake, but instead of strawberry you have lemon. Not that bad at all.

Heres a montage I made (Click the thumbnail)

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/7...tagepc1.th.jpg

-Phantom